The old Washington department store Woodward & Lothrop -- known for decades as Woodies -- spent $200,000 a year on animated window displays in the 1970s.

In 2018, Holt Renfrew donated to the The McCord Stewart Museum the two Christmas displays that had appeared in the windows of Ogilvy’s, the Montreal department store it now owns, for 70 years.

Rikes Christmas window displays. ... both old and young, it’s just not Christmas without the animated characters ... After the store closed in 1991 the window displays were auctioned off ...

Christmas window displays remain one of the most talked about and fondly remembered aspects of a great department store. In the late fall, stores with big first-floor windows would be covered to ...

Historic Christmas window display figures from the old Crescent store have been uncovered and given new life at select locations in downtown Spokane this Yule season.

”In this business, Christmas never ends,” sighs Amy Meadows, manager of window display for Marshall Field`s State Street store. ”The animated displays generally have a three-year life span ...

AMHERST, NY (WKBW) — It will be a walk down memory lane for any Western New Yorker old enough to remember the annual holiday window displays at a once-famous department store in Downtown Buffalo.

For the children of Atlanta, Christmas meant the return of the Pink Pig. Beginning in 1953, the porcine-shaped monorail, grinning and googley-eyed, carried young holiday shoppers over the toy ...

Dayton's window displays are back for Christmas. ... now grace the old Dayton’s department store building. ... “All the bear collection is from one collector,” he says of the window display.

The Piccadilly-based department store has considered itself the “home of Christmas” for the last 314 years, with its front display windows the gateway. This year’s theme for the windows is “animal ...